Ashley Wagner performed a Triple Flip+Triple Toe in practice several times today. Rachael Flatt and Agnes Zawadzki had strong short program run-throughs, but Agnes has a few errors during her long. Vanessa Lam missed her first Triple Lutz, but came back to hit the rest of her long program during practice. Mirai Nagasu attempted Triple Axels at the end of her practice, but they aren't there. She had a rough long program run-through, but came back to hit the jumps she missed. Melissa Bulanhagui successfully landed triple axels at the end of her practice. Caroline Zhang looked sharper than she has in a while and says she has been working on speed drill with Karen Kwan.

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The segments with Miss Val are becoming like an ongoing Saturday Night Live skit. Every week we see her grow a little bit more pissed and the interviewer guy a little more apprehensive, hehe. I love her facial expressions at the beginning!

Anna Li doing a front 2.5 is ridiculous. She'll never pull that around (same with her 3/1... she's not fucking ASac and needs to get over it). Plus, her UB routine is like Tweddle's... without the grip changes and pirouettes. How unoriginal.

An ideal situation would be if Nastia could do multiple events, that way Anna could be taken as a bars/beam girl and not have to worry about injuring herself on the leg events. Either Nastia or Anna could vault in prelims and then an ASac/Shawn/Maroney group could vault in finals.

I hope he's as great as Takahashi or a Yagudin. I don't want him to be a Tara or Zhang. Tara was a good competitor like Evan but not the best skater. It would be nice to have both. Zhang had great potential but grew right out of it. Neither Tara or Zhang have the best technique.